I came across the music blog music think tank last night and found an essay by Rhodri Marsden entitled Please Buy My Record: The Futility of Flogging Music. [Flogging is an English expression for selling.] I encourage all musicians to give it a read. Here’s an excerpt -
One thing that nearly all my bands [...]
No it doesn’t…
June has almost gone and I haven’t had time to get through all the promo MP3s in the in box yet. The incoming music plugs have remained constant and mostly the quality is very high. Although I have mentioned this many times, I’d like to reiterate - I prefer electronic submissions. I have [...]
Hypebot reports - You know that things are bad when the exclusive supplier of the nation’s top brick and morter music seller decides to call it quits. In another sign of declining sales, Wal-Mart rack jobber Handleman is exiting the music business in North America.
Albert A. Koch, President and Chief Executive Officer of Handleman, [...]
Fleet Foxes at Sasquatch. Pic ©Nilina Mason-Campbell
Tomorrow will be quite the day I think for Seattle’s Fleet Foxes. Here’s the lowdown from Sub Pop’s website -
Fleet Foxes are five. There are five of them, and they are from Seattle. They are, for lack of an imminently more marketable descriptor, a group trafficking in baroque [...]